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Monday, 30 January 2017

Harvey’s Gang

Hello My Name Is: Buster, I have to go to the hospital regularly
to have my bloods checked.

My
friends at the hospital have told me there is a gang called Harvey’s Gang.

They
too have to have their bloods checked regularly.

None
of us like needles or indeed hospitals.

They
have told me that the department that runs the bloods are

called
‘Fl baa toe mists. That’s a bit of a
mouthful just like that dance ‘flamenco’.

Everyone
there is apparently very jolly and the most exciting thing is that a big giant
called Malcolm runs’ the department.

I
have been told a vampire runs the bloods at night and that I can see alien
blood too!

A
secret gang of special people ! Are they
Ghostbloodsters? !

I
REALLY want to be part of that crazy gang!
Maybe I will! I have been invited for a tour with my mum.

I
am off to meet the giant !

My
mum and I arrive at the hospital and we are met by a very tall man I can barely
see his face in the clouds. I swear I saw a seagull flying around his head!

He
seems to be a very jolly giant in a big white coat.

‘Hello young man, my name is Malcolm,’ the
giant says,

‘I have a goody bag for you and look your
very own laboratory coat’.

I say,

‘Thank you.’ The coat fits perfectly and I
shake his enormous hand.

It has a Harvey’s Gang Badge on it, I feel
very special.

Malcolm tells us, ‘We are going on and
adventure today to see what happens to people’s blood.’

I
am excited and scared at the same time; I take hold of my mum’s hand nervously.

Malcolm
escorts me and my mum into a white room, it’s massive!!!

It
has a very large train track covering the entire floor. The track seems to go
on for miles and miles and miles ……

The
train track is sealed and there are lots of vials dropping down and ssshing
along that station it’s like a mechanical pick and mix. ‘Shaky Shaky’ the blood
is dancing, ‘Swirly Whirly’ as it spins down the track. In the vials there are
little bits of blood of which gets moved all along the train track. The
computers check the blood for everything. The computer must be a wizard.
Malcolm tells me and my mum that ‘the track is like a large washing machine for
blood.’ I’d never get my trainers in
that washing machine!

I
spot a lolly pop cup and ask if there are any lollipops available, Malcolm laughs
and tells me that is for something different, that they also check poo and wee
and that is the poo cup, I burst out laughing – WOW!

‘Can you see what we have for dinner ?’ I ask
and everyone laughs.

At
every ‘station’ there is a person monitoring the blood and someone is there all
the time even at night. ‘At night,’ I
ask, ‘is the blood looked after by a vampire? Does it drink the bad blood?’

Malcolm
giggles, ‘we do indeed have our very own friendly vampire called Dave and he
takes care of all the blood that goes off and is bad.

Malcolm
takes us to another large room with some very big fridges.

He opens the door.

It
and it is like a supermarket frozen section of blood.

Malcolm
explains that if blood is ever needed there all types here that can be matched
and given to people including me.

‘Gosh
Malcolm, people are very kind to give blood to people like me! They must be
heroes as they save people!’

‘They
do indeed young man and you must never ever be afraid. We will always be there
to help.’ Malcolm smiles. I trust this friendly giant.

I
watch as the blood results go through a long tube that travels through the
ceiling and whoosh up to the right wards in the hospital. A hospital blood
mailbox! Whoosh! Some bloods shoot up the pipe to one of the wards.

This
is all so much fun, I think, ‘What was I worried about?’

‘Now
we are about to end our tour and we have something very special to show you’ Malcolm
looks over his glasses and takes me over to a microscope.

Now
this is top-secret Buster, we are Harvey’s Gang and sometimes we do some secret
work for the government. Today we have some special blood taken from an alien.’

I
knew it, alien blood!!! I am so excited!!

I look through the microscope and can see all
the blood cells quite clearly they are not even green or indeed red. Malcolm
says that they have to freeze the blood to stop it moving around so much as
they cant see what is happening if it running about all over the place.

‘So young man did you enjoy your day? You
are now an official member of Harvey’s Gang!’

Malcolm
beams at me he doesn’t look like a giant so much now.

‘Yes
I did thank you so much. Can I come back one day and see my blood go through
the train station one day?’

‘Of
course you can Buster. We look forward to seeing you. Don’t forget though the
vampire and the alien blood is top secret.

Malcolm
winks and I take my mother’s hand smiling. I am not scared or afraid now I know
the Giant, Malcolm, his teams and the train set are there to help me.